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Case Studies by Service/Product

Consulting Services

• Agency of Alberta Government develops its mainframe retirement strategy [PDF]
  

  Having achieved consensus on the retirement approach, Fujitsu Consulting built and validated sequencing criteria for retirement of the applications selected for analysis.

• Fujitsu completes management review of policing agency’s IT organization
  
• Fujitsu Consulting delivers fully-hosted document and imaging system to financial industry client [PDF]
  

  Fujitsu Consulting fully deployed an Electronic Document Management and scanning environment based on Documentum’s Electronic Document Management System products suite.

• Fujitsu delivers cost-efficient portal solution for Cargill
  

  Fujitsu collaborated with Cargill to implement a best-of-breed portal solution for Cargill’s grain-trading customers. The portal used a robust and scalable Microsoft .NET-based architecture that would be able to support up to 20,000 users, while delivering additional customer-support functionality.

• Fujitsu helps a leading global manufacturer centralize access and control of their SAP landscape
  
• Fujitsu helps the City of Edmonton adopt a new decision making tool
  

  Interested in understanding how to achieve the maximum value from its technology-related strategic initiatives, the City of Edmonton partnered with Fujitsu to implement EVM into all of its governance processes.

• Fujitsu helps the City of Edmonton adopt a new decision-making tool [PDF]
  

  Through the use of Enterprise Value Management, the City of Edmonton is working to integrate its investment decision processes to its ongoing performance measurement, establishing a tie between selection and execution, a key component of successful strategic management.

• Fujitsu mobile solution provides major propane supplier with increased control over its field operations
  
• Fujitsu transforms SAP rollout failures into success for global supply chain management provider
  
• J.D. Edwards business intelligence solution enables timely, informed business decisions for Acme Brick Company [PDF]
  

  Fujitsu Consulting integrated an end-to-end collaborative BI Financial Management solution for Acme.

• Ministry of Revenue adopts .NET technology [PDF]
  

  With the support of Fujitsu Consulting and Microsoft, the MRQ adopted the new technology, allowing for cost effective delivery of online capabilities to Quebec citizens, while paving the way for future services.

• State of Washington Department of Licensing selects NETCOBOL for .NET
  

  Department of Licensing decided that the time had come to make the move from the Unisys mainframe to commodity hardware in the form of Windows-supporting computers. Fujitsu Consulting's winning proposal met the RFP criteria in a way that minimized the migration risk while helping staff build contemporary skills.

• State of Washington Department of Licensing selects NetCOBOL for .NET [PDF]
  

  Fujitsu Consulting’s winning proposal met the RFP criteria in a way that minimized the migration risk while helping staff build contemporary skills.

• State of Washington Department of Licensing successfully re-hosts HP3000 platform to server-based Microsoft .NET environment [PDF]
  

  Fujitsu Consulting’s winning proposal met WADOL’s criteria in a way that allowed them to preserve their investment in their existing code, while new industry-standard server platforms delivered the capacity and performance they needed.

• Translink/Coast Mountain Bus Company implements Fujitsu Enterprise Data Warehouse solution [PDF]
  

  Fujitsu was responsible for building and implementing the entire Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) solution. The EDW solution was built using the Fujitsu Macroscope® methodology.

IT Infrastructure Services

• California's Placer County turns to Fujitsu for firewall consolidation, upgrades and ongoing support
  

  "The solution we bought from Fujitsu consolidates everything and they support it all. I don't need a separate agreement for the operating system,"says Jeff Tudor, Placer County Network Security Coordinator. "If there is a new software release for Check Point or the Nokia operating system, Fujitsu notifies us and they just go ahead and implement it. It's one more thing I don't have to worry about."

• DeVry secures 50+ campus locations with firewall product support and intrusion monitoring from Fujitsu
  

  "When we first launched ..concerns were raised about academic freedom and the use of firewalls, "says Rich Lermer, Director of Information Technology at DeVry. "But we were able to show ...that we could protect corporate resources on the inside without restricting access to information by authorized users."

PC Products

• Emory Orthopaedics & Spine Center enhances patient care with the deployment of Fujitsu Tablet PCs [PDF]
  

  "As in all businesses, the costs of running a medical practice continue to escalate. Every physician has to look constantly for opportunities to reduce costs. If you can find a way to reduce costs while simultaneously improving patient care and providing patient outcomes data, you have an amazingly powerful combination of benefits." – Dr. Scott Boden, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Director of the Emory Orthopaedics & Spine Center

• Farmers Mutual Insurance of Nebraska increases productivity and accuracy of claims with Fujitsu Tablet PCs and Mobile Claims Solutions [PDF]
  

  While the roots of the company are over 100 years old, the technology infrastructure for their Claims Department is state-of-the-art thanks in part to the recent introduction of the Fujitsu LifeBook® T4000 Series Tablet PC and a mobile claims processing solution from Symbility Solutions.

• Fujitsu LifeBook Tablet PC plays critical role at new high-tech hospital [PDF]
  

  "The key goal of incorporating the Fujitsu tablet PCs was to have easy access to legible information. Gone are the days of illegible handwriting, difficult-to-read orders, and misplaced patient charts." – Tanya Townsend, IT Director, Saint Clare’s Hospital

• Fujitsu Pen Tablets are used in first North American "drive-through" insurance claims facility [PDF]
  

  Using Stylistic Tablet PCs, Proxim radios and Mitchell’s software, appraisers create repair estimates while standing with customers and inspecting damaged vehicles.

• Fujitsu Tablet PCs provide National Distributing Company's sales team with point-of-service tool for order entry and CRM
  

  "The bottom line comes down to providing our salesforce with the tools they need to do their job better and faster, "explained Jay Davis, president and co-chief executive officer NDC. "With Fujitsu pen tablet PCs and our Web-enabled CRM application, they have immediate access to the information they need to provide the very best service to our valued customers."

• High school goes high tech: Fujitsu LifeBook Tablet PCs help students make the grade [PDF]
  

  The goal of DePaul Catholic High School was to give its students the technology skills they would need in college and in their careers. Three years after introducing the Fujitsu LifeBook notebooks, the school has not only helped its students become adept with computers, it has raised the bar on education.

• Indiana Wesleyan University’s delivers quality education with Fujitsu LifeBook notebooks [PDF]
  

  Nine years ago, Indiana Wesleyan University placed its first purchase order for Fujitsu LifeBook® notebooks. While IT team members have looked at other products from time to time, they remain committed to Fujitsu notebooks– purchasing more than 5,000 since the initial order.

• LifePath Hospice depends on Fujitsu to help deliver 24 x 7 palliative care [PDF]
  

  Fujitsu LifeBook® T4215 Tablet PCs provide healthcare providers with up-to-the-minute patient information and access to critical healthcare applications that run on the 35 Fujitsu PRIMERGY® servers deployed to power the organization’s datacenter and provide full disaster recovery.

• Marshfield Clinic launches innovative EMR initiative with LifeBook notebooks and Stylistic Tablet PCs [PDF]
  

  A physician-friendly, chartless electronic medical record (EMR) system using Marshfield Clinic’s Cattails software suite and Fujitsu LifeBook® T4000 Series Tablet PCs and Stylistic® ST5000 Series for reliable, high-performance mobility.

• Perry Middle School students use LifeBook mini-notebooks in the classroom [PDF]
  

  Fujitsu LifeBook® U800 Series convertible mini-notebooks now provide the middle school students with a 21st Century teaching tool with rugged portability and the ability to adapt to evolving needs.

• Provena Health’s home care agencies realize dramatic improvements in patient care with Fujitsu LifeBook notebooks [PDF]
  

  By enabling clinicians to gather information at the point of care, the patient information system and Fujitsu LifeBook P1500 Series notebooks have enabled Provena Home Care to improve the accuracy of patient and billing information.

• Shaw Industries increases sales process efficiency and reduces errors with Fujitsu Tablet PC
  

  "We use a lot of different brands of technology at Shaw and track failure rates. Failure rates with our existing Fujitsu tablets were the lowest of any vendor we have worked with. This experience translated into a clear benefit for Fujitsu when we were buying new systems because we already knew how good their equipment was and felt confident we would get similar quality with the Fujitsu LifeBook T4000 Tablet PC." - Steve Abernathy, Director, Marketing Technology, Shaw Industries, Inc.

• Small jet pioneer uses compact Notebook PCs from Fujitsu to extend flight management systems to the pilot's laptop-and beyond [PDF]
  

  Finding the right notebook PC to run its Avio Flight Bag software under sometimes harsh and crowded cockpit conditions took Eclipse Aviation Corporation more than two years. Reading bright sunlit computer screens and accessing large digital charts and maps in a timely way were particularly challenging.

• Technology makeover: CollaGenex Pharmaceuticals streamlines sales calls with Fujitsu LifeBook notebooks [PDF]
  

  CollaGenex sales representatives make professional presentations from virtually anywhere and account for drug samples with electronic forms. They spend less time on administrative tasks and more time meeting with doctors.

• The College of Engineering at Virginia Tech transforms learning environment with Fujitsu Tablet PCs [PDF]
  

  To facilitate active learning, the College of Engineering turned to Tablet PC technology. The team felt the Tablet PC form factor and pen computing capabilities provided many opportunities for creativity and active learning that were not provided by a traditional notebook computer.

• The Hospice of the Florida Suncoast uses Fujitsu Tablet PCs to ensure patients receive the best possible care [PDF]
  

  "When I came to The Hospice two years ago, less than 50 percent of our documentation was done electronically. Now approximately 70 percent of our documentation is done on computers, thanks in part to the Fujitsu LifeBook Tablet PC." – Gay Madden, Vice President of Information Systems, The Hospice

• With the Fujitsu LifeBook Tablet PC, keeping the Cengage Learning sales force up-to-date is elementary [PDF]
  

  Cengage Learning’s sales force relies on a powerful mobile solution, enabled by Fujitsu LifeBook Tablet PCs. More than 800 sales reps in the U.S., Canada, Australia and the U.K. use the powerful tablets to access and update critical customer, product, opportunity and ordering information on the fly.

Retail Products

• Danier Leather receives “present” from Fujitsu’s ValueCENTER gift-card management system
  

  At Danier, ValueCENTER creates an in-house, centralized gift-card management platform that is managed by only two employees. In addition to traditional customer gift cards, the system helps Danier track supplemental card usage including cards given for corporate distribution, employee awards and customer service issues.

• Danier Leather skins legacy systems, selects Fujitsu as one-stop shop for retail technology
  

  Fujitsu deployed a wide range of retail technology , including its GlobalSTORE point-of-sale (POS) software, CustomerCENTER customer relationship management (CRM) and loyalty software, ReturnCENTER returns management application, ValueCENTER stored-value card and gift-card software, TeamPoS (POS) hardware and iPAD handheld units.

• Fujitsu automated ticketing kiosks are a hit at Regal Cinemas
  

  Regal is implementing a two-part deployment that includes both the Regal Express automated ticketing kiosk and an upgraded concession POS system.

• Fujitsu POS a good fit for Liz Claiborne
  

  Following a rigorous search in the fall of 2002 that included a review of business, technical and application requirements for a new chain-wide point-of-sale (POS) system, Liz Claiborne Inc. deemed Frisco, Texas-based Fujitsu Transaction Solutions Inc. as the best fit for its then 300-plus retail stores.

• Fujitsu U-Scan Self-Checkout system provides a competitive edge for Schnuck Markets
  

  Fujitsu U-Scan self-checkout units at Schnuck's stores process an average of 30% of all customer orders.

• GlobalSTORE is a good fit for Staples Europe
  

  Staples deploys Fujitsu's state of the art POS system, GlobalSTORE, in Germany and Portugal that could later be extended to the retailer’s European store network in the UK and the Netherlands.

• Hannaford standardizes Kash n' Karry IT services with Fujitsu
  

  When Hannaford Bros. Co. took over management of IT operations for its sister company Kash n' Karry, Hannaford CIO Bill Homa faced twice as many stores to oversee, a complex array of technology vendors to sort through and no additional staff support.

• Marks & Spencer deploys GlobalSTORE POS in 10 months
  

  Marks & Spencer's core POS system is founded on Fujitsu's GlobalSTORE solution, which was customized to meet the retailer's needs before being piloted and then rolled out to 350 stores across the U.K. and Europe.

• REI improves customer service with GlobalSTORE POS
  

  REI turned to Fujitsu's Corema for a system that could totally integrate customer information from many different sources and systems to create a single view of the customer, with one single tool.

• Staples and Fujitsu collaborate to reduce IT service costs
  

  Keep it simple. Those three words say it all for Staples Inc.'s approach to IT infrastructure. Fujitsu's approach to service delivery helps Staples relentlessly reduce costs.

• Staples makes buying office products easy with Fujitsu's iPAD mobile devices
  

  The next-generation applications on handhelds and POS systems have helped increase the store associates' productivity, improve overall customer satisfaction scores and ultimately drive sales.

• West Midlands Co-operative Society Deploys GlobalSTORE across UK
  

  Following an extremely successful pilot, GlobalSTORE will be rolled-out across West Midland Co-op's remaining 36 stores. Once implemented, all of the Society’s IT infrastructure, including legacy and third-party products, will be supported by Fujitsu on a 24-hours-a-day, 7-days-a-week basis, using enterprise management and desktop tools to ensure optimum performance and minimum down-time.

Scanners

• Clinic going chartless with Fujitsu scanners and Purkinje's Electronic Medical Record [PDF]
  

  Family Medicine Group chose the Fujitsu fi-5120C scanner to scan paper documents into their newly implemented Purkinje's Dossier Electronic Medical Record (EMR) software.

Servers

• America West Airlines enlists Fujitsu to tackle server-related delays and cancellations [PDF]
  

  With greater reliability and support, Fujitsu's PRIMEPOWER servers and multi-vendor maintenance services helped America West achieve a 75% reduction in flight delays.

• Chicago’s largest independent food distributor migrates to Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST and PRIMERGY servers and ETERNUS storage [PDF]
  

  By migrating to the Fujitsu platform, Anthony Marano has gone from 95 percent system availability to 99.999 percent availability. The system mirror and partitioning capabilities of the PRIMEQUEST 540 server have delivered unprecedented reliability and redundancy, reducing costly downtime.

• Fujitsu eases the pain of an aging IT infrastructure at Hospice of Michigan [PDF]
  

  Thanks to Fujitsu hardware, HOM has successfully created a robust IT infrastructure with high availability – where the data, application, and end-user tiers work together flawlessly.

• Fulton County optimizes taxpayer dollars through server-consolidation strategy [PDF]
  

  To meet these challenges, Fulton County managers adopted a server-consolidation strategy. Leveraging virtualization technology, legacy Wintel servers are being consolidated onto Fujitsu PRIMERGY® Series Server Blades. To economically support Oracle® databases, managers also elected to deploy Intel® Itanium® 2-based PRIMEQUEST® servers leveraging Red Hat® Enterprise Linux.

• LifePath Hospice depends on Fujitsu to help deliver 24 x 7 palliative care [PDF]
  

  Fujitsu LifeBook® T4215 Tablet PCs provide healthcare providers with up-to-the-minute patient information and access to critical healthcare applications that run on the 35 Fujitsu PRIMERGY® servers deployed to power the organization’s datacenter and provide full disaster recovery.

• PRIMEPOWER server solution supports an aggressive corporate growth strategy [PDF]
  

  First American Real Estate Solutions chose Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER server solutions to drive a massive Oracle database and improve its data center performance and reliability to support an aggressive corporate growth strategy.

• The First American Corporation primes for growth with help from Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER servers [PDF]
  

  The PRIMEPOWER servers help First American to more efficiently manage and scale its pool of computing resources. By relying on fewer but high performance PRIMEPOWER servers, the company can allocate resources based on customer demand, scale server resources as needed, and ensure redundancy between data centers in the event of a service disruption.

• Virginia State Police enhances law enforcement services using the latest server solutions from Fujitsu [PDF]
  

  Fujitsu has enabled the Virginia State Police to better scale processing power with user and application demands, add features without adding additional database software licenses, enjoy a significant improvement in transaction performance with enhanced system redundancy and security—both at its primary data center in Richmond, Virginia and a remote disaster recovery site.

Software

• BearingPoint makes the case for BPM with the service-oriented integration platform from Fujitsu and Software AG [PDF]
  

  BearingPoint was able to impact a critical part of their customer’s business—unified Web-based loan requests and approvals—through the Fujitsu and Software AG SOA repository, while leveraging legacy applications.

• G&T Conveyor looks to Glovia ERP to optimize business processes and enhance operational control
  

  One of the largest privately held baggage handling systems manufacturers in the United States, G&T Conveyor looks to Glovia to resolve their issues with multiple legacy systems, poor cycle times, and limited scalability.

• Glovia ERP's Project Accounting automates cost control processes and provides enhanced visibility for budget analysis
  

  Radio Frequency Company migrated to the current version of Glovia to take advantage of automated cost control process, project accounting, project resource planning and enhanced visibility for budget analysis.

• Glovia ERP automates business processes, provides real-time information, and standardizes automotive company on a single enterprise solution
  

  An integrated supplier to the automotive industry in North America and one of the world’s leading developers and producers of innovative audio, digital and other electronic products for consumer, business and industrial use selected Glovia ERP as their single enterprise solution, with the company migrating to the current version of Glovia ERP, replacing legacy systems. The current Glovia ERP version has automated many of their critical business processes, improved navigation of the system, and provided important operational information in real-time.

• Glovia ERP delivers foundation for global automotive business at Keihin Aircon
  

  A principal supplier of fuel systems, electronic controls and HVAC products to Honda, Keihin Corporation used gloiva.com to integrate its three North American manufacturing plants, reduce inventory levels and decrease personnel costs.

• Glovia ERP delivers integration of supply and demand chains with huge cost savings for Fujitsu Telecom
  

  Glovia runs multiple manufacturing plants in the UK and Ireland for this leading provider of fiber optic transmission systems as well as voice and data switches.

• Glovia ERP delivers the "most cost-effective solution" for this maker of custom-made and ready-to-wear medical hosiery
  

  "We'll be able to respond globally as a company, so that everyone who has contact with a customer will be able to pull up current and historical data instantly. They'll also have direct access to any notes made by the field sales people. It's all about personal service and responsiveness - and that's what gives us a competitive edge." David Madanski, Systems and Programming Manager, Beiersdorf-Jobst.

• Glovia ERP helps Daktronics reduce engineering-to-manufcturing cycle times
  

  Glovia's unmatched projects capabilities and enterprise-wide visibility helps this world class manufacturer of electronic scoreboards and large-screen / programmable video displays to keep customer promises and cut costs.

• Glovia ERP helps TRB keep its product lines running smoothly
  

  Glovia helps TRB, an automotive supplier of everything from steering and airbag systems to switches and key cylinders, keep its product lines running smoothly

• Glovia ERP helps Trimm Technologies (now JMR) substantially reduce the time-to-market for new products
  

  Glovia substantially reduced the time-to-market for new products for the premiere provider of high performance storage systems for networking, digital, broadcast, and data-storage environments.

• Glovia ERP provides a real-time view for a leading manufacturer of plastic and rubber components
  

  See how Glovia creates an accurate, real-time view of this leading manufacturer of plastic and rubber components.

• Glovia ERP simplifies purchasing and product manufacturing at Veromatic International
  

  Glovia simplifies purchasing and production for this manufacturer of customized vending machines.

• Glovia ERP triggers DEK's entire manufacturing process
  

  Glovia provided an integrated, global solution for the world's leading provider of advanced Pre-Placement manufacturing solutions for the electronics circuit board assembly and semiconductor industries.

• Interstage Business Process Manager adds workflow to Interwoven WorkSite MP
  

  After a careful product analysis, Interwoven chose Fujitsu’s Interstage® Business Process Manager™ to add workflow in WorkSite MP. Interstage Business Process Manager is a Java-based business process management solution that can maximize the value of already existing software infrastructure products, like WorkSite MP.

• IVEX Packaging has it all wrapped up with Glovia ERP
  

  Glovia helps this manufacturer of medical, electronic and retail packaging products integrate and operate 18 manufacturing plants in the US as well as 11 plants in Europe and Asia.

• Munters Americas implements Glovia ERP's Customer Self-Service to enhance customer experience
  

  Munters Americas eBusiness Order Management initiative saves time, improves order accuracy and visibility, and enhances customer experience.

• NSK Corporation trims millions of dollars in excess inventory with Glovia's integrated ERP system
  

  Glovia helped the world's second largest producer of ball and roller bearings trim nearly $8 million in excess inventory.

• Oil States Industries migrates to current version of Glovia ERP enhancing operational visibility and SCM
  

  Oil States' recent migration to the current version of our software improves operational visibility and supply chain management through minimizing customizations and standardizing system use.

• Portola Packaging gains significant control over operations with Glovia ERP's real-time framework
  

  Glovia's extended ERP solution provides a real-time framework for improved financials, inventories, information flow, and customer service at one of the world's largest designers, manufacturers, and marketers of tamper-evident plastic closures and containers.

• Target Group integrates Interstage Business Process Manager into its core consumer finance software
  

  Fujitsu’s Interstage Business Process Manager supports Target’s consultative process in client engagements. It helps its business consultants to understand what a process is trying to achieve and how it works. It allows them to model the flow and follow it through to building the interaction screens with Target’s core processes and logic.

Solutions

• ARCO Chemical predicts polymer stability using CAChe software from Fujitsu
  

  Using CAChe™ to calculate reactivity indices, ARCO Chemical was able to disprove its competitor's claims that ARCO Chemical's less expensive polyester would degrade faster in sunlight.

• California's Placer County turns to Fujitsu for firewall consolidation, upgrades and ongoing support
  

  "The solution we bought from Fujitsu consolidates everything and they support it all. I don't need a separate agreement for the operating system,"says Jeff Tudor, Placer County Network Security Coordinator. "If there is a new software release for Check Point or the Nokia operating system, Fujitsu notifies us and they just go ahead and implement it. It's one more thing I don't have to worry about."

• DeVry secures 50+ campus locations with firewall product support and intrusion monitoring from Fujitsu
  

  "When we first launched ..concerns were raised about academic freedom and the use of firewalls, "says Rich Lermer, Director of Information Technology at DeVry. "But we were able to show ...that we could protect corporate resources on the inside without restricting access to information by authorized users."

• Fujitsu calculates binding energy for FKBP receptor and ligands using generalized BAR method
  

  Scientists at Fujitsu Labs., working with collaborators at Stanford University, found that the parallel configuration of the BioServer™ enabled highly accurate binding energy calculations by generalized BAR (Bennett Acceptance Ratio) method to be completed in days, which would take a standard cluster configuration months to years to complete.

• Fujitsu enhances ADMET predictions using high throughput docking scores as descriptors
  
• Fujitsu models efflux lability of putative antibiotic scaffolds using high throughput method
  
• Fujitsu performs high throughput docking of the NCI screening set of compounds
  

  Docking studies have taken an increasingly important place in the workflow of structure based drug design (SBDD). Accurate docking of ligands into identified pockets adds a significant 3D descriptor to structure activity relationship (SAR)-based high throughput screening methods.

• Johnson & Johnson calculates binding affinities for Stromelysin-1 (MMP-3) inhibitors using method from Fujitsu
  
• Oregon Graduate Institute predicts environmental remediation rates of potential new agrochemicals using CAChe software
  
• Sealed Air Corporation saves the time and expense of pilot scale testing by using CAChe software
  

Storage

• Chicago’s largest independent food distributor migrates to Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST and PRIMERGY servers and ETERNUS storage [PDF]
  

  By migrating to the Fujitsu platform, Anthony Marano has gone from 95 percent system availability to 99.999 percent availability. The system mirror and partitioning capabilities of the PRIMEQUEST 540 server have delivered unprecedented reliability and redundancy, reducing costly downtime.

• Hay Group selects ETERNUS4000 for company’s first-ever SAN [PDF]
  

  Deploying a Storage Area Network as part of a consolidation effort, the Hay Group relied on the Fujitsu ETERNUS4000 for its high availability, high-performance and scalability.